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solid71
Joined: Jun 15, 2007
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 15:22
Hi All,
I have recently automated my site with a php database, and a lot of the pages that used to be static are now generated dynamically, BUT, the static pages are redirected via the htaccess file. Well, anyway, I have a sitemap uploaded to Google now that has the static pages in it, and I just re-generated the sitemap here, and of course, it shows only the dynamic pages. Is it smart for me to upload this new sitemap? Should I just keep the one that's already on google?
I know eventually, when I add new pages, I will have to upload the one with the dynamic ones...but for now, what do you think?
Regards,
Rob
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freeflyer
Joined: Aug 06, 2007
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 16:05
use the new one.. thats where your pages are now. Submitting the old one will just keep tellng google that the pages are still there.. which they're not.
Incidentally, dont forget about yahoo and MSN XML sitemaps via their webmaster tools and site explorer.
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solid71
Joined: Jun 15, 2007
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 16:09
So is it acceptable to Google to have pages in the sitemap that look like this?
*http://www.abccompany.com/homes_wanted_listing.php?state=Alabama
which is replacing
*http://www.abccompany.com/Alabama.html
?
[ Message was edited by: Dinkar 04/02/2008 11:52 pm ... Reason: URL edited. ]
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freeflyer
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 16:18
yes, it doesnt matter what the link looks like.. youre simply submitting it to google as a double safe measure that it knows its there. It'll follow the pages from your site links anyway.
Dont worry too much about the xml sitemaps... they dont do much apart from make sure the pages are known about. They dont gurantee a crawl or an index. Think of them as a backup to your already existing site links.
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Quadrille
Joined: Nov 15, 2000
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 17:01
But be careful; it looks like you might get BOTH URLs indexed, which may lead to duplicate content issues.
I'm no techie, but it seems to me that if your static URL setup was working, the sitemap generator should have picked up the html NOT the php URLs - or am I missing something obvious?
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solid71
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 17:29
Yes, it's odd...when I run the sitemap gen now, it exceeds 500.....and the most my site has is about 300, static and dynamic
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Quadrille
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 17:53
Run xenu and see what it throws up.
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solid71
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 17:58
Xenu?
What is that?
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solid71
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 18:52
ALSO...is there a limit on the amount of URLs your sitemap can have, according to Google?
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freeflyer
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 19:21
"But be careful; it looks like you might get BOTH URLs indexed, which may lead to duplicate content issues. "
only up until the point where the 301 or 404 kicks in.. this isnt a problem. The search engines will simply reference the old URL's until the htaccess has done its job and the new url's are filtered through, and during this time your current serps arent affected.
I also normally a put wildcard (if possible)into the robots.txt blocking all old pages (theres normally something in there that the old pages all have in common). This seems to help, but not sure of the technicalities of it quite yet. As yet though none if it has affected serps by doing it this way.
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Quadrille
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Posted: 2008-Apr-02 21:28
Google [xenu] or [xenu link sleuth]
One of the most useful web tools around.
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Apr-03 20:07
You should have used a rewrite instead of a redirect. You could have kept all the URLs the same, even though the internal way your website works has changed.
A rewrite connects an external URL request with an internal filepath and filename. You use .htaccess for that too.
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